Last Holiday season, a good friend and wonderful human being sent a gorgeous gift from her aviary!
If you are not already familiar with Pandemonium Aviaries, check them out! They do AWESOME work and have one of the most artistic and beautiful aviaries I have ever visited. The staff and students that surround the facility/home are amazing and caring...you can truly see that the birds come first!
Okay, okay, but I'm getting ahead of myself BECAUSE the main reason (and to toot PA's horn too!) is to talk about the absolutely beautiful ornament she sent for Holiday season 2011! Check it out! Can't you just imagine an entire tree decorated with these and add an elaborate feather topper! I want one! But these are another project that is easy to do. Collect feathers (LOTS and lots of feathers for a really long time!) and purchase jewelry cones, put some hot glue inside the cone...insert feathers and wallaaa...gorgeous ornament or inexpensive gift!
Hey! Jade is our newest baby girl! Jade came to us from Dr. Susan Clubb, she's an absolute sweetheart! Jade is a Meyers Parrot and she hatched 3/24/12!
Jade's mission at the Learning Center is to meet visitors...what I mean by that is she's a great example of how wonderful of a pet, a bird can be. She's a nice, non-intimidating size, she's very sweet and friendly. Jade meets and steps up for most visitors, we especially use her in our education program "what makes a bird a bird"....this program is for our young children and Jade's perfect.
We've been working on socializing Jade with other Education animals and we have a cute little video of some of that in action! Enjoy! If you are working on socializing any animals with other animals, you need to supervise closely. We're always right there and watching the body language between the animals...we're ready to step in at anytime...just in case someone decides to be aggressive! We're there to swoop in and save the day.
You've already met, Packer...our Senegal Parrot, well Jade is stepping in for Packer. Packer is getting old (over 20) and she's not as excited about meeting person after person like she was when she was a "spring chicken". Don't get me wrong, Packer is still a big part of education...just a little more on the DL!
I'm not sure how many of you follow Barbara Heidenreich and her Good Bird Inc blog, (if you don't...you should!) but if you do/did I wanted to officially introduce you to Beni our Caninde Macaw. We purchased Beni from Wendy a breeder out of Texas and once weaned he spent a few exciting months with Barbara working on some training. Below is a video of Jessica working with Beni, she's training him a new behavior where the takes an object and carries it with him as he flies to another location and drops it in a bowl. I apologize for the video, I must have had way too much coffee!
Beni has been a great addition to the Kaytee Learning Center family! We love him so much and so do visitors! Since Beni is flighted, he does a great job flying from us to visitor and it's such a thrill for them to have this beautiful, rare bird land on their arm. Beni is a GREAT sport and we love him so much....although he loves us all...he LOVES Jessica! :)
